Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...

Canadian company Volt Lithium has developed and pilot-tested a new low-cost lithium extraction method to pull this critical battery metal out of low-concentration brines. Now it plans to turn old oil ...

Take a look behind the scenes of a recent Reports article, entitled: ‘Rapid extraction of DNA suitable for NGS workflows from bacterial cultures using the PDQeX’, as we ask authors about PDQeX, a new ...

Construction of the first large-scale direct lithium extraction plant in the U.S. began last month in California's "Lithium Valley"— igniting potential to transform the Salton Sea area into a ...

Researchers have developed a new method to prepare bone powder for ancient DNA extraction. The method outperformed previous techniques of decontaminating ancient bones. Researchers from Max Planck ...

Over millennia, mighty geological processes in the earth’s crust heated and compressed together pieces of life-forms that had been dead for a while. Eventually, this mulch of organic matter ...

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Today, the ability to obtain pure proteins is essential for developing targeted drugs, creating vaccines and understanding biological processes at a molecular level. The development and optimization ...